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Which Holiday Movie Should You Watch? Build A Christmas Basket For Yourself To Find Out

We all need to give ourselves some love sometimes! Spoiler alert: the basket is for yourself!

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Maggie Haberman and Catie Edmondson

Trump to Name Michael Waltz as His National Security Adviser

The president-elect has chosen a Republican member of Congress from Florida to oversee national security policy in the White House.

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This Is Your Chance To Tell Me Why You've Done A Complete 180 On A Celebrity

I want to hear allllll your opinions.

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19 November Dessert Recipes That Will Actually Feel Like A Warm, Cozy Hug

I'm getting hungry just writing this.

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28 Products That’ll Actually Make You Excited To Do Your Hair

Now that summer is over, we don't have to worry about heat and humidity ruining our hard work.

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32 Things For Anyone Who Absolutely Thrives On Being Pristinely Organized

If your neat freak heart bursts with joy at the containment of clutter, you've come to the right place.

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Why Elon Musk is the real winner of the 2024 US Presidential election

Donald Trump may have won the 2024 presidential election, but Elon Musk may end up being the bigger winner than the soon-to-be 47th President of the United States.

Musk bet big on Trump and spent millions to back him. However, Musk wasn't just doing this out of the kindness of his heart. Many of Musk's companies. including Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), xAI, The Boring Company, and Neuralink, heavily rely on government contracts and subsidies. They have made billions in federal...

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iOS 18.2 beta 3: 4 Apple Intelligence features you can test now

The full suite of Apple Intelligence features isn't quite ready for primetime yet, but you can at least test some of them out prior to their proper launch.

Apple launched the third beta for iOS 18.2 this week. If you've gotten past the Apple Intelligence waitlist, this beta lets you get a taste of the new AI-powered features. It should be noted that these features actually entered the public beta last week and the latest beta release is mostly dedicated to bug fixes.

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Meet the Eureka E10s robot vacuum

Robot vacuums have become an increasingly popular tool for maintaining a clean and tidy home with minimal effort, and over the past decade, the market has grown increasingly competitive. One of the more recent major players in the game is Eureka, and if you're looking for a way to simplify your cleaning routine, the Eureka E10s Robot Vacuum might be the solution you need.

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Trump picks Lee Zeldin to run EPA, Stephen Miller for deputy chief of policy

Zeldin, who left Congress in January 2023, was a surprising pick for the role.

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday named former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as he continues to build out his future administration with loyal supporters.

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Julian Chokkattu

Branch's Early Black Friday Sale Has Deals on Our Top Office Chairs

Our top office chair and standing desk recommendations are on sale through December 2.

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Sean Hollister

Valve finally made a white Steam Deck that you can actually buy

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Nearly three years to the day after teasing the world with a white version of the Steam Deck, Valve has finally decided to release the normally black handheld gaming PC in that color too. The limited-edition white model is going on sale for $679 on November 18th at 3PM PT / 6PM ET, everywhere the handheld is sold, including Australia and the various regions of Asia served by Komodo.

It’s no different on the inside than a normal model, says Valve:

Steam Deck OLED:...

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Umar Shakir

Google’s AI ‘learning companion’ takes chatbot answers a step further

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Google has launched an experimental new AI tool called Learn About, which is different from the chatbots we’re used to, like Gemini and ChatGPT. It’s built on the LearnLM AI model that Google introduced this spring, saying it’s “grounded in educational research and tailored to how people learn.” The answers it provides have more visual and interactive elements with educational formatting.

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If Gift-Giving Is Your Love Language, Check Out These 39 Cute Finds

Acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch... All these pale in comparison to giving someone a custom pet stamp or Miffy humidifier.

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Pistachio farming is on the rise in drought-prone California

Pistachios have surged over the past decade to become California’s sixth-biggest agricultural commodity in value ahead of longtime crops such as strawberries and tomatoes.

In a sprawling plant in the heart of California’s farmland, millions of shells rush down a metallic chute and onto a conveyor belt where they are inspected, roasted, packaged and shipped off to groceries around the world.

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Henry Chandonnet

The filibuster has been a thorn in Democrats’ side. Now it’s their last hope

Two years ago, Democrats nearly toppled the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. But with an incoming Republican majority in the Senate, it may be their only tool to fight against a conservative agenda.

For years, key members of the Democratic Party have been pushing for filibuster reform. According to one 2021 tally, 46 Democratic senators expressed an openness to transforming the filibuster, which prevents legislative action without a supermajority of 60 votes. And in 2022,...

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Mark Schofield

This moment from Mike McCarthy’s Monday press conference is peak Cowboys

The sun is always getting in the way for the Dallas Cowboys.

The Dallas Cowboys dropped to 3-6 on Sunday thanks to a 34-6 blowout loss at home to their NFC East rivals the Philadelphia Eagles. The team’s slim playoff hopes are on life support, as the Cowboys look up at both the Eagles and the Washington Commanders in the division, and starting quarterback Dak Prescott is seeking guidance on how to deal with a partially torn hamstring that may require season-ending surgery.

As one...

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Jay Peters

Signal calls now work a lot more like Meet and Zoom

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Signal is making a bunch of improvements to calls so they are more competitive with Zoom and Google Meet, including the ability to share a link to a call.

Previously, you could only initiate a call from a Signal group chat, so this new feature should make it much easier to hop on the phone with a friend or co-worker by sending them a link inside or outside of Signal. You can also re-use call links, which could be handy for recurring work...

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Andrew Webster

Super Nintendo World’s new Donkey Kong area has a rollercoaster and rhythm games

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Nintendo is finally ready to show off the next phase of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. In a Nintendo Direct today, the company gave the first proper look at the Donkey Kong Country-themed expansion for the theme park, which includes a mine cart rollercoaster and a real-life, three-player version of the Donkey Konga rhythm game. The expansion opens on December 11th.

To get to the new area, attendees go through a tunnel seemingly made with...

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Jay Peters

Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week

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Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge. The “majority” of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US, Wang says. The app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store, only trailing Meta’s Threads.

People posting on Threads, on the other hand, have raised complaints about engagement bait, moderation...

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